Word: cared
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With the summer finally over, very little is clear about the two contests Bostonians care about most: the campaign for governor and the race for the American League pennant...
...Bellotti's favor, his pollsters have guided him into a few good positions. In speeches across the state, Bellotti stresses the importance of economic competitiveness and health care reform--although his proposals seem a bit short on specifics. Bellotti's record as attorney general is fairly solid on women's rights (excluding abortion), the environment and consumer issues, although questions remain about how well he policed his own office...
Thompson's failings as a legislator are by no means obvious. On the whole, he has proved himself a decent state representative, one whose heart is clearly in the right place. He supports abortion rights and health care, opposes the death penalty and opposes the petition of the Citizens for Limited Taxation to roll taxes back to their 1988 levels...
...residents too afraid to walk the streets? Which candidate has proposed a more coherent plan to put criminals behind bars? Would either candidate do what New York Governor Mario Cuomo has done and call for the hiring of more police officers? Who knows? The staff doesn't seem to care...
Unfortunately, Weld has endorsed the Citizens for Limited Taxation (CLT) petition--a proposal that would indiscriminately bankrupt the state government and leave schools, health care facilities and other state services on the brink of financial collapse. Although he says he would seek to delay the CLT petition's implementation as governor, Weld's position reveals too much of antigovernment Ronald Reagan and not enough of his Yale counterpart. We are also disappointed by his staunch support of the death penalty--a position he shares with Pierce and Democratic candidate Frank Bellotti...